It's bad enough going down the Waterway on a normal weekend, but it seems that Memorial weekend has brought out all of boating's best and brightest. It warmed my heart to see the Marine Patrol handing out a ticket to a power boat that was blatantly ignoring the 'no wake' signs.
Someone in America is making some money, for all these powerboats to be cruising up and down the waterway at 'max fuel burn' speed.
Well, we had a nice evening on the hook at Marker 21. The last time we'll be doing THAT for awhile (snif). Sorry we missed TGIF at MYC, but we just needed to get going.
Tonight's stop is a wide spot in the ICW about 10 miles south of Ft. Pierce then on to West Palm tomorrow.
The boat's working pretty well. The autopilot and refrigeration are working well. The anchor windlass isn't... an electrical problem in the remote control. It still works manually. Dave spent an hour today troubleshooting and repaired one break in the wire. Still didn't fix it. So we'll use the old-fashioned manual windlass and repair it properly when we get to Marathon.
Boot key harbour - that is where I met Dave at Dorothy's 50th BD party 2 years ago with Don & Gwen - all CSY people !!! I'll be interested to hear how it has changed - supposed to be ALL mooring balls - but with FL new law they can not kep you from hooking it vs balling it. Still $65.00 to park the dink tho.
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